Collection PL

Paraguay 1907 - Banco de la República 5 Pesos with 1912 State Overprint (Pick 127, Base Pick 156)

As a PMG 64 Choice Uncirculated example of the cataloged 1912 state-overprint type, this note is a major reference piece for Paraguayan provisional paper money. It combines the rarity of high-grade emergency currency, the clarity of the 1912 state overprint, the technical quality of Waterlow & Sons engraving, and the historical importance of Paraguay’s attempt to restore monetary authority during a period of crisis. It is not simply a high-grade overprinted note; it is the standard 5 Pesos state-revalidated form against which the issued and dual-side fiscal varieties can be properly understood. Read more →

Poland 1994 - 50 Zlotych Rare London Print C-Prefix Note, CH9769411, Milczak 198A

This example is significant not because it differs in design from other issued 50 Zlotych notes, but because its CH prefix preserves the only London-printed C-prefix interval within the 1994 denomination series. It represents a small but distinct production-sequence rarity embedded within an otherwise ordinary circulation issue. Read more →

Great Britain 1919 - Thomas Cook and Son 5 Pounds Circular Note Photographic Proof (Pick Unlisted)

This 5 Pounds Circular Note proof is a discovery-level survivor within the history of Thomas Cook and Son's private financial instruments. Its importance lies not only in its individual rarity, but in its place within a wider linked sequence of circular note and later traveller-payment material. When viewed beside the 1904 50 Dollars circular note proof, the alternate 1919 5 Pounds proof, and the later 1922 5 Pounds traveller-payment proof and specimen, it helps document the evolution of secure portable money for international travel from Edwardian circular notes into the mature twentieth-century travel-payment system. Read more →